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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ↗

— Plato

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The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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The years teach much the days never know. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

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If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before. ↗

— Loris Malaguzzi

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What matters most in a child's development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self-confidence. ↗

— Paul Tough

#teaching-children #education

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That's probably why the two are so often confused. ↗

— Esmé Raji Codell

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